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<div><div>1) complete deletion is a bad idea, as this way someone searching for this <br></div><div dir="auto">info on community-maintained OSM Wiki will not find this pointer<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">OSMF wiki is a separate wiki<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2) currently it is not intended to give full info but some very short <br></div><div dir="auto">summary - basically answer to someone who is surprised why OSMF<br></div><div dir="auto">needs to employ anyone<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But if people think that it is a bad idea it can be deleted and keep<br></div><div dir="auto">just redirect to OSMF wiki<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>Dec 15, 2021, 16:53 by allan@iafrica.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div class="">Replying to Mateusz:<br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">Including a pointer to the "Contractors
and employees" page is good and is noted.<br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">However may I suggest a more detailed
motivation for total deletion of page
"OSMF_employees_and_contractors" in favour of the page
"Contractors_and_employees".<br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">The first section duplicates
"Contractors_and_employees" but in a less detailed manner, so now
looks to be redundant.<br></div><div class="">The second section (which I wrote) is
probably unnecessary and can die, but if anyone truly loves it,
the legal stuff could be added to the "Contractors_and_employees"
page as a footnote.<br></div><div class="">The footnote link to Martin Raifer's
introduction as iD developer is useful and could be added to the
"Contractors_and_employees" page as a footnote. <br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">I like to believe that holding two
concurrent versions of data is just asking for trouble as updating
is typically unsynchronised and you end up with two competing
truths.<br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">Any thoughts? Yes/No?<br></div><div class="">Craig Allan<br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">On 2021/12/15 18:23, Mateusz Konieczny
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>What would you change in its existing stage?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(note that it differs from what you seen
previously and at minimum<br></div><div dir="auto">it should be kept as pointer to osmfoundation
wiki)<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dec 15, 2021, 16:15 by <a href="mailto:allan@iafrica.com" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">allan@iafrica.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;" class="tutanota_quote"><div>Thanks Dorothea and collaborators.<br></div><div>That's a great page on Contractors and Employees - with
lots of detail. Super transparent.<br></div><div>I suggest we retire the page <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMF_employees" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMF_employees</a><br></div><div>Craig Allan<br></div><div><br></div><div>On 2021/12/15 14:37, Dorothea Kazazi wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Hi Mateusz,<br></div><div><br></div><div># OSMF contractors and employees<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 10:52, Mateusz Konieczny via
osmf-talk<br></div><div><a href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org></a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Nowadays there is <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMF_employees" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMF_employees</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>It has<br></div><div>"has hired a few contractors to perform some
administrative functions"<br></div><div><br></div><div>I know about Dorothea, is there anyone else who is or
was<br></div><div>employed/hired/contracted?<br></div></blockquote><div>In July I created a page on the OSMF website about
contractors and employees:<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Contractors_and_employees" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Contractors_and_employees</a><br></div><div>..and it answers your question.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please note that it includes only information that I'm
aware about.<br></div><div>The working groups are welcome to update it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>warm greetings,<br></div><div>Dorothea<br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>osmf-talk mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>osmf-talk mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk</a><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div></blockquote><p><br></p></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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